Snooker Is Obviously Popular
Since we have been covering the TCC Snooker Pro-am from Newport each week we have seen a 5% growth in our viewers accessing our video on demand categories.
Some elements of the media suggest that snooker is dying and there is no doubt that it has undergone a decline since it’s heydey in the 1980’s, both in terms of playing numbers and TV audiences.
What these media types forget though is that for the decline in the UK there has been major growth in places like Germany, Belgium, Russia, The Middle East and China.
Although 60% of our website traffic still comes from the UK we are finding more and more of it is driven to access snooker related content. Viewers from all over the globe want to get a regular fix of high quality snooker videos. I would suggest (without any evidence I must add) that this could be due to the fragmentation of pool disciplines. It is easier to search and find snooker content as it is it’s own discipline, pool on the other hand comes in many forms and is a little trickier to find.
I have always said that the growth of Cuesport TV will come about by good quality snooker content and this is what we are finding.
I am hoping to announce another major tournament being added to our live offering over the next week so look out for that.
With around 60% of your website traffic in the U.K, then snooker will be important to show on Cue Sport TV as snooker’s home is the U.K. Interesting thought about the different pool disciplines, never really thought of it that way before.